Articulations: Inside Artists' Heads
Five Important Things
As an artist interested in the place of artworks outside the confines of the art 'world,’ and
as a professor of art interested in providing students with the challenge of thinking deeper
than the canvas, I have worked with the idea of defining, in general terms, the elemental
components of creativity:
Perception: The ability to understand or comprehend the significance of what is seen,
sensed, or thought with intelligent accuracy and clarity. The first spark of the recognition
of ‘quality.’
Awareness: A heightened state of mind providing a general sensitivity to stimuli, and
preparedness for inspiration through perception.
Time: The medium of existence, and that on which all other media are rooted. An
illusion generated by our awareness of existence within space.
Patience: The ability to become one with time. A state of mind achieved through an
understanding of the relationship between events, desire, and duration.
Limitation: Creativity is inspired by limitation, that which generates aspiration,
evolution and ingenuity. It is the motivating force. The friction element, which, in
concert with desire, generates the energy needed for creation.